If you'd like to read Cheney's full speech as posted on the White House site
its posted here.
I'm not sure how you can get any closer to "declaring war" and of course its been pointed out that even President Bush is not using this same rhetoric, so this is tantamount to the VP thinking *he* has the power to declare war: and that goes *way* beyond Unitary Executive Theory!
Got war?
Buffy